This very weekend thousands of students are going to take the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT).
“A record-breaking total of 87,000 senior high school students are set to take the five-hour University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) all over the country this weekend,” reports Janvic Mateo in The Philippine Star.
The report noted that “the number of examinees was higher by 5,000 from the 82,000 who took the exam last year.” The report also added that “in 2011 and 2012, the examinees were estimated to be at 71,000 and 75,000, respectively.”
For the record: “UP offers more than 170 programs in its eight constituent universities: UP Diliman (with an extension program in Pampanga), UP Baguio, UP Los Baños, UP Manila (with Schools of Health Sciences in Baler, Palo, and Koronadal), UP Visayas (with campuses in Iloilo/Miagao and Tacloban), UP Cebu, UP Mindanao, and the Open University.”
On the average, around 12,000 to 13,000 students pass the exam each year.
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